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Wellington City Council makes the top ten top ten lists
Monday 17 December
Santa’s busy making lists around
this time of year, so we’ve made a few of our own –
they’re all nice… mostly!
We’ve asked some of our fabulous facilities and services teams to compile some top ten lists reflecting the best, the biggest, the baddest, the fastest and funniest, the weirdest, wackiest and the most wonderful from 2018, and they’ve come up with some gems.
Top 10 lists
From the Library
| Top 10 Pop Music Tracks | Top 10 Adult Fiction |
| Party – Aldous Harding | The midnight line – Lee Child |
| Colours – Beck | The woman in the window – A. J. Finn |
| Preservation – Nadia Reid | The rooster bar – John Grisham |
| American Dream – LCD Soundsystem | End game – David Baldacci |
| Damn/ - Kendrick Lamar | The Break – Marian Keyes |
| Lust For Life – Lana Del Rey | No middle name – Lee Child |
| Beautiful Trauma – Pink | A country escape – Katie Fforde |
| Lotta Sea Lice – Courtney Barnett | The year that changed everything – Cathy Kelly |
| American Utopia – David Byrne | This could change everything – Jill Mansell |
| What’s Chasing You – Marlon Williams | The Fallen – David Baldacci |
| Top 10 Young Adult Fiction | Top 10 Children’s Fiction |
| Turtles all the way down – John Green | The last straw – Jeff Kinney |
| Mortal engines – Philip Reeve | Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Greg Heffley’s journal – Jeff Kinney |
| The maze runner – James Dashner | Hard luck – Jeff Kinney |
| The fault in our stars – John Green | Diary of a wimpy kid: Rodrick rules – Jeff Kinney |
| The book of dust – Philip Pullman | Diary of a wimpy kid: The long haul – Jeff Kinney |
| The Hunger Games – Suzanne Collins | The 29-storey treehouse – Andy Griffiths |
| Everything, everything – Nicola Yoon | Double down – Jeff Kinney |
| The book thief – Markus Zusak | Diary of a wimpy kid: Old school– Jeff Kinney |
| The Fall – Robert Muchamore | Diary of a wimpy kid: Cabin fever– Jeff Kinney |
| The hate u give – Angie Thomas | The 13-storey treehouse – Andy Griffiths |
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| Top 10 Adult Non-fiction | Top 10 Adult Biography |
| Drawn out: A seriously funny memoir – Tom Scott | Driving to Treblinka: A long search for a lost father – Diana Wichtel |
| Eat – Chelsea Winter | Educated: A memoir – Tara Westover |
| The energy guide – Libby Weaver | The diary of a bookseller – Shaun Bythell |
| Fire and fury: Inside the Trump White House – Michael Wolff | The choice – Edith Edgar |
| Let’s eat! – Nadia Lim | Daughter of Gloriavale: My life in a religious cult – Lilia Tarawa |
| The art of simple – Eleanor Ozich | A life of my own – Tomalin Claire |
| Essential – Annabel Langbein | Ma’am darling: 99 glimpses of Princess Margaret – Craig Brown |
| Nikau Café – Kelda Hains | Priestdaddy – Patricia Lockwood |
| 12 rules for life: an antidote to chaos – Jordan B Peterson | I am, I am, I am: Seventeen brushes with death – Maggie O’Farrell |
| Little bird goodness – Megan May | Daughter of an empire: Life as a Mountbatten – Pamela Mountbatten |
Dog related things
| Top 10 dog names | Top 10 Residential Streets for dogs |
| Charlie | Queens Drive |
| Bella | Mitchell Street |
| Molly | Karori Road |
| Poppy | Severn Street |
| Max | Adelaide Road |
| Coco | The Parade |
| Ruby | Darlington Road |
| Toby | Ohiro Road |
| Rosie | Cockayne Road |
| Archie | Derwent Street |
Out and about
| Top 10 strangest things found in the Facilities, Parks and Reserves | Top 10 Remarkable Trees in the City |
| A bike left on Deliverance downhill mountain track on Wrights Hill | The 800 year old Rimu – Otari Wilton’s Bush |
| A plastic Cannabis bong bottle left at ASB Sports centre, fitted with hose pipe | The Macrocarpa at Wellington Botanic Garden |
| Nipple shell left at Kilbirnie Recreation Centre | The Bucket Tree Tawa |
| A silicone breast left at Wellington Regional Aquatic Centre | 88 The Terrace Pohutukawa |
| Meal from Uber Eats at ASB Sports Centre | 335 Willis Street Oak Trees |
| Dildo at ASB Sports Centre | Museum Street Oak Tree (behind Parliament) |
| Sword at ASB Sports Centre | Plimmer Oak (Plimmer Steps) |
| Sleeping bag found at Tawa Pool | The Pohutukawa on Oriental Parade (planted 1938) |
| A miniature golf club found the Botanic Gardens | The gnarly Karaka trees around the south coast past Red Rocks |
| A very cute kitten toy (Beanie Boo) left at Wellington Regional Aqautic Centre | The Blood Gums outside Old Government Buildings on Lambton Quay |
Walks/Mountain Biking Tracks
| Top 10 Walks according to our park rangers | Top 10 Mountain bike
tracks according to our park rangers |
| Te Ara Paparangi & Te Ara Paparangi ki te Tonga - Newlands | Skyline Walkway – Old Coach Rd to Karori Park |
| Khandallah Park to Mt Kaukau - Khandallah | Peak Flow – Makara Peak,
Intermediate
|
| Eastern Walkway – Breaker Bay to Pass of Branda | Solitary –
Centennial Reserve Miramar
|
| Wind Turbine to Red Rocks - Brooklyn | Magic carpet loop - Makara
Peak
|
| Johnsons Hill - Karori | Deliverance – Wrights Hill
|
| Highbury Fling - Polhill | Pariwhero
Coastal track – Owhiro Bay to Red Rocks
|
| Tawatawa Loop Track – Happy Valley |
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